Our humble thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. These senseless acts of random violence upon innocent people will hopefully be discussed until a solution or solutions are found to stop...
This Is America
Back in the Game
R.C. and Stacy Davis lost their condominium to foreclosure in 2009, a bad break that seemed destined to keep them from buying another home for many years. Yet on Wednesday -- only three years after their foreclosure -- the couple signed the papers to buy a...
Foreclosure Animals
WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- A family in Woodstock, who just lost their home of 20 years to foreclosure and are preparing to move out, lost even more on Wednesday. And it was because of what they triggered when they posted a craigslist ad Tuesday night. Their online post was...
Never Forget
Ornery In Brighton, CO
From AOL Real estate: If you thought foreclosure signs were bad for home sales, wait till you get a load of this Brighton, Colo., homeowner's spray-painted disclaimer. Titus Terranova, the implausibly named homeowner whose property abuts a home for sale in the rural...
Millenials and Homebuying
From theatlantic.com: Millennials, of course, are sharing more than transportation: they’re also sharing living quarters, albeit begrudgingly, and with less gee-whiz technology involved. According to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, between 2006...
Giant Loss for Mankind
I know the guy who has Buzz Aldrin's watch:
18,000 Friends of Angelo
From MND: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a report today on Countrywide Mortgage and its so-called VIP loan program which the committee said was "a tool used by Countrywide to build goodwill with lawmakers and other individuals positioned to...
Big-Money Competition
Thanks to reader "interesting" for passing this along yesterday, from bloomberg.com: Blackstone Group LP, the biggest buyer of U.S. commercial real estate since prices bottomed, is jumping into residential property as housing recovers. The private-equity firm has...
Bidding Wars Everywhere
Thanks to booty juice for sending this in from bloomberg.com: A week after Christine Lynch listed her house in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles for $3.625 million, she had seven offers. Within 10 days, a deal was reached for the five-bedroom, six-bathroom...